Charter School Enrollment Data Annual Report
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1 See, for example, http://seii.mit.edu/research/school-reform/, http://credo.stanford.edu/research-reports.html, and http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/cohodes/files/informingthedebate_final.pdf. 2 http://seii.mit.edu/research/study/charter-school-demand-and-effectiveness-a-boston-update/ 3 http://seii.mit.edu/research/study/special-education-and-english-language-learner-students-in-boston-charter-schools-impact-and-classification/ 4 Much of the overview information is a drawn directly from the Massachusetts charter school statute, G.L. c. 71, § 89, and Massachusetts charter school regulations, 603 CMR 1.00. The Department is grateful to the Office of the Attorney General, which summarized much of this information in the Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, Civil Action No. 15-2788-F, Doe v. Peyser (Mass. Super. filed Sept. 15, 2015). 5 See G.L. c. 71, § 89(b). 6 St. 1993, c. 71, § 55. 7 St. 1997, c. 46, § 2 and § 6. However, the tuition cap for any district that transferred 5% or more of its net school spending in fiscal year 1997 was the actual percent of net school spending transferred plus an additional 3%. 8 St. 2000, c. 227, § 2. 9 There have never been any applications for Horace Mann II charter schools. 10 http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/factsheet.xlsx . 11 See the Department memorandum entitled 2015-2016 Charter Application Process at http://www.doe.mass.edu/news/news.aspx?id=18989. 12 The relevant portions of the law and regulations can be found in G.L. c. 71, § 89(e) and 603 C.M.R. §1.05. 13 These students represent roughly 1% of public school enrollment in Massachusetts. 14 http://www.doe.mass.edu/sped/advisories/2014-5ta.html 15 See 603 CMR 1.05. 16 To avoid changing the rules for parents already assigned a waitlist number, a “grandfathering” clause was included in 603 CMR 1.05(10)(a) so that a charter school may choose to maintain any waitlists that were established prior to March 31, 2014 until such waitlists are exhausted, provided that such maintenance is clearly articulated in the school's enrollment policy approved by the Department. 17 http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/finance/chart/ 18 http://www.doe.mass.edu/boe/docs/fy2015/2015-06/item15.html 19 During the past two years, all charter schools that were granted significant expansion amendments made strong commitments to open access through proposed enrollment growth plans and policies that included backfill commitments that exceed statutory requirements and/or plans for new student entry in upper grades. 20 Due in part to this project and other work in partnership with the Department, MCPSA was recently awarded a national leadership activities grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The award provides $2 million to create the Massachusetts Charter School Collaborative Access Network, the first statewide effort of its kind in the nation, to enhance charter school capacity to serve students with disabilities and English language learners. 21 For example, in Boston, exam schools have academic performance admissions requirements. 22 See the Department’s Choosing a School: A Parent's Guide to Educational Choices in Massachusetts at http://www.doe.mass.edu/finance/schoolchoice/choice_guide.html23 http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/finance/chart/ 24 The midpoint value of all comparison schools. This is derived using Microsoft Excel's MEDIAN function. 25 The first quartile is the middle number between the smallest number and the median of all comparison schools. This is derived using Microsoft Excel's QUARTILE function. 26 The comparison index provides a comparison figure derived from data of students who reside within the charter school’s sending district(s). The comparison index is a statistically calculated value designed to produce a fairer and more realistic comparison measure that takes into account the charter school’s size and the actual prevalence of student subgroups within only those grade levels in common with the charter school. 27 *2014-2015 is the first year for which the category “Economically Disadvantaged” is being reported, replacing the “Low-income,” “Free Lunch” and “Reduced Lunch” categories used in 2013-2014 and earlier. It is important for users of this data to understand that enrollment percentages and achievement data for "economically disadvantaged" students cannot be directly compared to "Low-income" data in prior years. Please see http://www.doe.mass.edu/infoservices/data/ed.html for important information about the new “Economically Disadvantaged” category. For this reason, the Department is unable to calculate a Gap Narrowing Target for this indicator due to the lack of baseline data based on the new Economically Disadvantaged metric. The Department will consider calculating the GNT for this metric beginning in 2016, once new baseline data is available. 28 http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/factsheet.xlsx 29 In 2010, rates of special education identification varied substantially cross Massachusetts school districts, ranging from 9 percent to 29 percent. See Review of Special Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: A Synthesis Report (August 2014) at http://www.doe.mass.edu/sped/2014/synthesis.pdf. 30 Gateway Cities are 26 mid-sized urban centers experiencing social and economic challenges evidenced by median household income levels below the state average, and a rate of educational attainment of a bachelor’s degree below the state average (MGL Chapter 23A Section 3A). Only Gateway Cities in which a charter school is located are included in the comparison district data set, which include: Barnstable, Chelsea, Chicopee, Everett, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, New Bedford, Revere, Salem, Springfield, Worcester 31 Charter schools began implementing recruitment and retention plans in the 2011-2012 school year. 32 The Department is in the process of updating this analysis to include 2015-2016. 33 New Students are defined as students who were not enrolled at the same school the previous school year. 34 A recent report by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees entitled Who Is Being Served (http://www.masc.org/images/news/2015/20151013_MASC_Charter-Schools_Who-Is-Being-Served_opt.pdf) accurately notes that magnitude of the growth in the proportion of English language learners in Boston can be partially attributed to the efforts of Match Public Charter School, which opened an elementary campus in the fall of 2011 with a specific mission to serve English language learners, highlighting the level of variability of subgroup proportions at different schools within a city as noted earlier. 35 The attrition rate represents the percentage of students who were enrolled at the end of one school year and did not remain in the same school in the following fall. Students in the school’s highest grade are not included in the calculation. The Department also calculates “with-in” year mobility rates—Intake (Transfer-in) Rate; Churn Rate; and Stability Rate—and is in the process of incorporating this data into CHART and future analyses. 36 http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/finance/chart/ 37 School-level attrition rates were averaged, weighted by the number of students enrolled at the school. District-level attrition rates do not provide the appropriate comparison because they do not capture mobility between schools within the same district, which occurs frequently in urban districts. 38 G.L. c. 71, § 89(n). 39 603 CMR 1.05(10)(c). 40 See http://www.mass.gov/auditor/docs/audits/2014/201351533c.pdf. 41 The slight difference is due to the Auditor using slightly different rules to determine if two student records constitute a match. 42 Updated waitlists from the fall reporting cycle, reflecting late offers of admission as seats open up over the summer and fall, will be available in winter 2016. 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